The Best Bluetooth Speaker for Gardening

The Best Large Wheeled Travel Backpack for Long-Term Travel

We’ve looked at every option out there for wheeled carry-on backpacks, and Eagle Creek pieces were close to the top, but not our top pick for most people. However, Eagle Creek has excellent, durable luggage and high brand satisfaction, and for some people, the Eagle Creek DoubleBack or the Eagle Creek Switchback International Carry-Ons could be …

We’ve examined every Bluetooth speaker on the market, but we thought it would be wise to narrow our focus here to just two excellent, small, outdoorsy speaker offers from Logitech’s UE: the Wonderboom and the Roll 2. We stand by our overall Bluetooth speaker meta-review‘s recommendation of the UE Boom 2 as the best combination of durability and great sound …

We recently tested out our top-recommended USB-C battery, the Anker PowerCore+ 20,100 with the Samsung Chromebook Plus. Reports had been great on its use with a variety of USB-C phones, laptops, and tablets, but we wanted to see how well it would work with the latest Chromebook from Samsung. Our assumption is that a laptop user who …

We reviewed every scrap of information published so far about the recently released UE Wonderboom. We were crazy curious about this speaker, as other speakers from Logitech’s UE have frequently been our favorites. The Ultimate Ears Wonderboom is quite new, so the verdict is not in yet from world consumer testing organizations, but plenty of other …

We’ve compared every small Bluetooth speaker on the American market by size and weight — in centimeters and grams. This compliments our meta-review of Bluetooth speakers and focuses on the smallest speakers available. There is also a version of this chart in inches and ounces. The table below starts with the lightest speakers and moves up by weight. It also …

We’ve spent weeks researching our total meta-review of Bluetooth speakers, and we’ve done a comparison of a few top brands. But we think it would also be worthwhile to make a complete chart of the very smallest and lightest Bluetooth speakers out there, sorted by size. In the table below we start with the very lightest speakers and then …

Sure, you could take a bottle of wine on a picnic in Italy, or a flask of vodka on the Peter-Moscow overnight train. But the best road drinking gear is Spanish: the bota. These drink sacks are made from leather with an inner lining of goat bladder, pitch or — nowadays — more durable, food-safe latex. The chief …

Most of the bluetooth speakers that tech sites were raving about a few years ago are still available, and you can expect to pay about half price for them. This market is a chaotic war — there are hundreds of models, and lots of them are excellent. We have thus been constantly updating our meta-review of the latest portable bluetooth speaker …

We got a bit obessed with researching toiletry bags. That’s because we’ve blown through lots of crummy ones in our decades of constant travel. Standard bags leak, fall apart, and aren’t much better than a plastic ziplock bag. We’re thus delighted to have found one that we can really get behind. This article is mainly for those needing to …

Our complete meta-review found that the is the most recommendable portable Bluetooth speaker out right now. That survey, however, did not take into account bigger speakers like the , and our readers have been asking us about it and how it compares to its famous littler sibling. Both are excellent speakers and quite similar, but there are a few differences to be …

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